Twelve Tales
Author: Grant Allen
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
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Twelve Tales of Christmas
Author: Cathleen Townsend
Publisher: Phoenix Flight Press
Published: 2017-11-23
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1370930011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristmas isn't always Jingle Bells and "Ho, ho, ho." In these Twelve Tales of Christmas, even Santa has to deal with unexpected German shepherds and reindeer who suddenly want to learn the tango. A dryad works feverishly with a teenage boy to save her tree, now in a stand in his living room, and everyone begs Death to hold off for just one more day. And no one knows what to do with the fire-breathing dragon. He's not going on the Christmas card list anytime soon. Come enter worlds of beauty and dread. Join a house hob as he raises his cup of eggnog high, and enjoy yuletide yarns delicious enough to tempt even St. Nick.
Jazz & Twelve O'clock Tales
Author: Wanda Coleman
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1574232126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoets who can write prose that equals their poetry are rare. With this collection of thirteen new short stories, Wanda Coleman, Los Angeles's unofficial poet laureate, proves an exception to the rule yet again. The characters in these stories lead lonely lives full of longing, of potential stifled by racism, poverty, and absurd accidents of fate. And yet, even though they are trapped by the present moment, their inner lives are lush, a mirror of the city of angels in which they live, a metropolis, always simmering, as Coleman writes in the final story, ever waiting to be borne on that balmy promised crescendo. Coleman applies a poet's economy of words to her fiction, setting a scene with lightning-quick strokes, letting a detail, a dialogue, or the brisk vernacular speak for itself. .
The People of Twelve Thousand Winters
Author: Trinka Hakes Noble
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2011-12-09
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1410310027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen-year-old Walking Turtle is of the Lenni Lenape tribe. He lives with his family in a small village alongside the Passaic River in what will become northern New Jersey. They have a relatively peaceful life, with nature offering up a bounty of resources for food and shelter, amply meeting their needs. Walking Turtle is close to his younger cousin, Little Talk. He feels protective of Little Talk, who has difficulty walking. Together they roam the forests near their village, with Walking Turtle carrying his cousin on his back. But in the autumn of Walking Turtle's tenth year, his father tells him that soon he must leave childhood friends behind and begin warrior school. Walking Turtle worries about what will become of Little Talk when he leaves for his training. And what is his future?Trinka Hakes Noble is the award-winning author of numerous picture books, including The Orange Shoes and The Scarlet Stockings Spy. She lives in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
The Book with Twelve Tales
Author: John Gallas
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRedefining poetry through narrative, this collection of poems explores the interaction between language and plot, and combines technical skill with charged dialogue and characterization.
Tales
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
Published: 1870
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
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Author: Felice Picano
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1602826994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve O’Clock Tales is the fourth collection of short fiction by legendary novelist and memoirist, Felice Picano (The Lure, Like People in History, True Stories). A personal homage to the storytellers of his youth, Edgar Allen Poe, E.F. Benson, and H. P. Lovecraft, as well as his acquaintances, Arthur C. Clarke and Harlan Ellison. Thirteen dark tales, eerie, bizarre, and dreamlike, the tales will thrill and disturb, discomfort and titillate, enthrall and leave you wondering. Picano ranges across time and space, from tribal West Africa to the American heartland, to a lab in Venezuela, and a California Highway fifteen years from now. His characters range from a teen accident survivor with a secret, to a far-future scholar forced to travel to a galactic backwater, to a retired L.A. cop who dabbles in astrology, and a peasant girl in B.C.E. Israel encountering the strangest of strangers. The thirteen tales include brand new stories and acknowledged Picano masterworks collected here for the first time.
Dance Me a Story
Author: Jane Rosenberg
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780500277393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRetells twelve great ballets as fairy tales--fairy tales set to music and told through the medium of dance.
12 Gothic Tales
Author: Richard Dalby
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this anthology we see a dozen fine examples of Gothic literature, spanning over one hundred and fifty years--from Mary Shelley and Charles Maturin's classic fiction up to an unexpected master of the macabre, Gerald Durrell. All of the tales feature sinister settings such as castles and ancient houses, along with protagonists who are haunted by the tyranny of the past and physically or else spiritually incarcerated by their circumstances. Designed to provide an overview of the genre, and offering a balance of classic and more unusual stories, this is a book that will appeal to both the newcomer and dedicated collector of Gothic fiction.
